IS KEEPING A PYTHON IN CAPTIVITY SAFE FOR PEOPLE IN A COMMUNITY?
This Burmese python is owned by a couple in barangay Dipatlong,Maribojoc and kept in the yard of their house. This Burmese python is a female named Samantha having a waistline of 38 inches, bigger than the first known python in captivity found in Albur. Though shorter in length, it has a bigger stomach and devours a 20-kilo piglet in just a minute. The local government is yet to decide whether to allow the continued stay of the python now gaining mixed public attention. The owners-couple have children in the house and the snake-cage is built just about five meters away. Children and family members play and allow themselves to be curled around by the snake. Questions now surface if it is safe for the family or the people in the vicintiy to keep this python, now growing bigger and eating more kilos of meaty foods everyday.
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